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The newspaper must provide for the reader the facts, unalloyed, unslanted, objectively selected facts. But in these days of comp
The newspaper must provide for the reader the facts, unalloyed, unslanted, objectively selected facts. But in these days of comp
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2010-06-30
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The newspaper must provide for the reader the facts, unalloyed, unslanted, objectively selected facts. But in these days of complex news it must provide more; it must supply interpretation, the meaning of the facts. This is the most important assignment confronting American journalism to make clear to the reader the problems of the day, to make international news as understandable as community news, to recognize that there is no longer any such thing (with the possible exception of such scribbling as society and club news) as "local" news, because any events in the international area has a local reaction in manpower draft, in economic strain, in terms, indeed’, of our very way of life.
There is in journalism a widespread view that when you embark on interpretation, you are entering choppy and dangerous waters, the swirling tides of opinion. This is nonsense.
The opponents of interpretation insist that the writer and the editor shall confine himself to the "facts". This insistence raises two questions :What are the facts? And: Are the bare facts enough?
As to the first query, consider how a so-called "factual" story comes about. The reporter collects, say, fifty facts; out of these fifty, his space allotment being necessarily restricted, he selects the ten which he considers most important. This is Judgment Number One. Then he or his editor decides which of these ten facts shall constitute the lead of the piece. ( This is an important decision because many readers do not proceed beyond the first paragraph. ) This is Judgment Number Two. Then the night editor determines whether the article shall be presented on page one, where it has a large impact, or on page twenty-four, where it has little, Judgment Number Three.
Thus, in the presentation of a so-called "factual" or "objective" story, at least three judgments are involved. And they are judgments not at all unlike those involved in interpretation, in which re porter and editor, calling upon their research resources, their general background, and their "news neutralism" ,arrive at a conclusion as to the significance of the news.
The two areas of judgment, presentation of the news and its interpretation, are both objective rather than subjective processes--as objective, that is, as any human being can be. (Note in passing: even though complete objectivity can never be achieved, nevertheless the ideal must always be the beacon on the murky news channels. ) If an editor is intent on slanting the news, he can do it in other ways and more effectively than by interpretation. He can do it by the selection of those facts that prop up his particular plea: Or he can do it by the place he gives a story--promoting it to page one or demoting it to page thirty.
According to the author, which of the following statements is true?
选项
A、Neither the presentation of the news nor its interpretation is objective.
B、The presentation of the news is more objective than its interpretation.
C、The presentation of the news and its interpretation are objective.
D、The presentation of the news is more subjective than its interpretation.
答案
C
解析
文章最后一段第一句指出作者认为新闻报道及其阐释都是客观的。A与文意相反。B和D与文意不符,作者并未把二者相比较。
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